Everything is Tuberculosis: Quotes

All I can think of
Is that I am lying
In a house in the snow.

• Masaoka Shiki

Section: 2, Chapter: 6

Women with consumption were believed to become more beautiful, ethereal, and wondrously pure. As Charlotte Brontë put it in a letter she wrote as her sister was dying of the disease, "Consumption, I am aware, is a flattering malady."

• John Green

Section: 2, Chapter: 7

Mom you are special and beautiful
You stand closer
When everyone ran away
Especially my cousin ran away
But you stood firm.

• Henry Reider

Section: 3, Chapter: 9

Of his time at Lakka, Henry wrote in his memoir, "Every morning at the break of dawn, the nurses would arrive with a tray of medications, a bitter reminder of the battle within. These pills, each with its own set of side effects, were ingested with a mix of trepidation and hope."

• John Green

Section: 3, Chapter: 11

KJ Seung: Of the 1,300,000 people who will die of TB this year, how many would survive if they had access to the kind of healthcare I have?

"How many would die if everyone could access good healthcare?" he asked me, as if he seemed confused by my question.

"Yes," I said.

"None. Zero. Zero people should die of TB."

• John Green

Section: 6, Chapter: 23